NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - The Navy's newest nuclear-powered attack submarine joined the fleet Saturday, with top Navy officials saying that it couldn't come soon enough with ever-increasing demands from combatant commanders. The USS John Warner was commissioned in front of several thousand people at a ceremony at Naval Station Norfolk ...

NORFOLK When the president called John Warner in January 2009 to tell him he was naming a submarine after him, the newly retired Virginia senator thought he was the butt of a prank, his wife, Jeanne, recalled Saturday.

By Elias von Hildebrand STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A submarine wreck discovered off the eastern coast of Sweden probably dates from World War One rather than last year when the military hunted for a suspected Russian submersible, the Swedish armed forces said on Tuesday. Monday's announcement by shipwreck hunters made headlines in Sweden, coming less than a year after its navy searched for a ...

The Swedish military is studying a video taken by shipwreck hunters who say it shows a wrecked submarine just off the eastern coast of Sweden which appears to be Russian, a spokesman said on Monday. The discovery comes less than a year after Swedish troops and ships unsuccessfully hunted for a Russian submarine reportedly cited near Stockholm, in the country's biggest military mobilization since...